Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery
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Arch Orthop Trauma Surg · Sep 2019
Prevalence, development, and factors associated with cyst formation after meniscal repair with the all-inside suture device.
To investigate the prevalence of cyst formation after using all-inside meniscal repair device and analysed the risk factors associated with it. ⋯ III.
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Arch Orthop Trauma Surg · Sep 2019
Mid-term outcome (11-90 months) of the extensor retinaculum flap procedure for extensor carpi ulnaris tendon instability.
The aim of our study was the assessment of the mid-term outcome of patients treated with a pediculated extensor retinaculum flap for extensor carpi ulnaris (ECU) tendon subluxation including postoperative tendon stability control. ⋯ The pediculated extensor retinaculum flap as a treatment for a symptomatic ECU instability shows good to excellent results and a high subjective satisfaction independent of postoperative ECU tendon displacement.
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Arch Orthop Trauma Surg · Sep 2019
Weight-bearing restrictions reduce postoperative mobility in elderly hip fracture patients.
Reduced mobility is a severe threat to the clinical outcomes and survival of elderly hip fracture patients. These patients generally struggle to comply with partial weight bearing, yet postoperative weight-bearing restrictions are still recommended by nearly 25% of surgeons. Therefore, we hypothesized that weight-bearing restrictions in elderly hip fracture patients merely leads to reduced mobility, while transposing full weight to the fractured extremity remains unaffected disregarding the prescribed aftercare. ⋯ Weight-bearing restrictions in elderly hip fracture patients contributed to a loss of mobility, while no significant differences in loading of the affected extremity were observed. Therefore, postoperative weight-bearing restrictions in elderly hip fracture patients should be avoided, to achieve early mobilization at full weight bearing.
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Arch Orthop Trauma Surg · Sep 2019
Fifty top-cited classic papers in orthopaedic oncology: a bibliometric analysis.
Citation analysis has been used to evaluate the impact of papers in medicine. There has been multitude of orthopaedic oncology-related papers in literature, to our knowledge no citation analysis of orthopaedic oncology papers has been performed. We identified the 50 most-cited orthopaedic oncology papers and evaluated these papers in terms of their time of publication, source journals, countries, institutions, authors, and main topics. ⋯ It is difficult to define the exact impact of a single paper in the literature. In doing citation analysis, it provides us perspective in the history and progress of orthopaedic oncology.